Mead Stone

Great question, Anne-Marie.

I've covered a number of 48 Hours cases.

Usually the whodunit of these cases is the mystery.

As it pertains to this story, the mystery was why was it more done in time?

Everyone we spoke with, from prosecutors to David O'Brien, he's the civil rights attorney representing Angela's family in that lawsuit against Bellevue Police, investigators

They all said more could have been done.

There were two no contact orders that were issued.

The first one, Angela actually lifted herself because she wanted to give her marriage a second chance.

But then it became very clear that the violence was only escalating.

And so she successfully requested a second no contact order.

As you mentioned, a no contact order means exactly that no contact of any kind.

That means no text messages, no phone calls, no emails.

And yet David O'Brien says in a 37-day window, in that period of time, Chris Pritchard made 12 violations.

Now, he was arrested once.

He spent a day in jail for that.

He was released.

He was supposed to appear in court, failed to do so twice.

There was then an arrest warrant issued for him.

Seven days went by.

No arrest was made.